Award-winning healthcare leader and author Vanessa Guzman MS, ME founded SmartRise Health to help healthcare organizations assess complex operational problems and devise strategic, quality improvement, and training initiatives to optimize outcomes and satisfaction among employees, partners, and patients.

Vanessa leverages her years of experience as a systems engineer and quality improvement executive in a multi-billion dollar health system to make abstract challenges concrete, identifying inputs impacting progress and actionable plans to move forward.

Over the years, Vanessa has helped her employers and clients earn millions of dollars in revenue through initiatives ranging from creating a training program for 3,000 healthcare providers to meet Medicare quality metrics to interventions focused on a set of potentially preventable hospital admissions. She offers both a practical knowledge and a set of custom analytic tools that help healthcare providers, insurers, and manufacturers analyze, design, and execute.

Vanessa is passionate about the healthcare sector because it is a helping profession and is committed to working with organizations to recognize and invest in their most valuable asset: human capital. As a part of her suite of services, Vanessa provides individual and group coaching to seasoned professionals and emerging leaders alike, to empower individuals to be better, do better, and create change.